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Iran files charges over BBC report on teen girl allegedly killed by security forces in 2022 protests

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Iranian prosecutors have filed criminal charges against activists and journalists following a BBC report that alleged security forces “sexually assaulted and killed” a 16-year-old girl during the protests over the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022. Nika Shakarami’s death also sparked widespread outrage. In Shakarami’s case, authorities

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Google and Apple now threatened by the US antitrust laws that helped build their technology empires

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department’s double-barreled antitrust attack on Google’s dominant search and Apple’s trendsetting iPhone is reviving memories of the epic battle that hobbled Microsoft before it roared back to yet again become the world’s most valuable company. The parallels to the Justice Department’s landmark

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Google and Apple now threatened by the US antitrust laws that helped build their technology empires

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department’s double-barreled antitrust attack on Google’s dominant search and Apple’s trendsetting iPhone is reviving memories of the epic battle that hobbled Microsoft before it roared back to yet again become the world’s most valuable company. The parallels to the Justice Department’s landmark

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‘Miss Peregrine’ author Ransom Riggs to launch new fantasy series, ‘Sunderworld’

NEW YORK (AP) — “Sunderworld, Vol. 1 The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry” begins the adventures of a Los Angeles teen who after his mother’s death has some surreal encounters in his everyday life. Dutton Books for Young Readers is a Penguin Random House imprint that will publish “Sunderworld” on Aug. 27. The “Miss Peregrine”

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Drone footage shows devastation in Ukraine’s strategic eastern city of Chasiv Yar as Russians near

By JILL LAWLESS and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Drone footage exclusively obtained by The Associated Press shows months of Russian artillery pounding have devastated a strategic city in eastern Ukraine. Chasiv Yar is a strategic high ground, and capturing it would set the stage for a potentially broader Russian offensive in

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Dueling protesters clash at UCLA hours after police clear pro-Palestinian demonstration at Columbia

By STEFANIE DAZIO, ETHAN SWOPE, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JOSEPH B. FREDERICK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dueling groups of protesters clashed overnight at the University of California, Los Angeles, shoving, kicking and beating each other with sticks after pro-Israel demonstrators tried to pull down barricades surrounding a pro-Palestinian encampment. Hours earlier, police burst into

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